Area
of Research/Interest:Biology and ecology of marine mammals with focuson
small cetaceans (dolphins and porpoises); basic and applied research animal
distribution, abundance, population, structure, reproductive biology and
behavior. The applied studies focus on mitigation of incidental catch (bycatch)
in fisheries and population, modeling (demographic and viability analyses).

Malcolm
J. Bowman,Marine Science Research Center, Endeavor Hall 215, South
Campus, State University of New York, StonyBrook NY 11794-5000, USA

Area
of Research / Interest:
Prediction and modeling of storm surges, coastal and estuarine studies, marine
conservation and fisheries rehabilitation.

Area
of Research / Interest:Computational
fluid dynamics, coastal development and conservation, hydraulic and ocean
engineering, beach erosion, near shore hydrodynamics and wave modeling,
development of a warning system of coastal disaster.

Area
of Research / Interest:
Biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and radionuclides, marine photochemical
and redox processes, sediment-water and water-rock interactions in
marine/estuarine geochemical processes, development and implementation of
computer codes in the study of geochemical equilibria, thermodynamics in
geochemistry and mineralogy.

Hans
Petter Langtangen, Simula Research Laborotary and Department of
Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway

Area
of Research/Interest: Numerical simulation of water waves (tsunamis in
particular), numerical solution of partial differential equations, software
development tools and techniques for computational science applications.

Fred
T. Mackenzie,Department of Oceanography and Geology and Geophysics, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii, USA.

Area
of Research/Interest:
Biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, CO2
exchange in the coastal zone, effects of rising CO2 and temperature
on coral /carbonate ecosystems, kinetics and thermodynamics of mineral-solution
reactions, and implications of global warming for concepts of sustainability for
Pacific island nations and Hawaii.

Andreas
Malcherek,Department
of Hydraulic Engineering,
University of the Armed Forces, Munich,
Germany.

Area
of Research / Interest:Estuarine
and coastal modeling, wave mechanics, sediment transport processes.

Area
of Research/Interest:Physical
oceanography mainly on modeling of mesoscale turbulence, cyclonic and
anticyclonic eddies, interdisciplinary research in the Southern Gulf of Mexico,
Gulf of California and Gulf of Tehuantepec, baroclinic processes and their
impact on biological and chemical properties of the seawater.

Area
of Research/Interest: Aquatic biology, biotechnology, ecology and
toxicology, marine and estuarine sciences.

Spiros
Pagiatakis,Department
of Earth and Space Science and Engineering,YorkUniversity,
Canada.

Area
of Research / Interest:
Dynamics of the earth as observed by space geodetic techniques, physical geodesy
and in particular in the determination of the geoid that is needed for a number
of modern mapping and oceanographic applications, mapping of the ocean surface
using geodetic and oceanographic tools.

Area
of Research / Interest:
Coastal physical oceanography and coastal sediment transport with emphasis on
field experiments and numerical modeling; circulation and mixing processes on
the continental shelf regions of Western Australia,remote sensing applications, effluent dispersion, estuarine
circulation and dynamics, design of artificial surfing reefs.

Area
of Research / Interest:estuarine
problems and modeling both numerically and physically, sediment and water
quality issues, hydrodynamic models with focus on two- and three-dimensional
estuarine models and coupled one- and two-dimensional models of stratified flows
and sediment transport.

Area
of Research / Interest:
Characterization of organic compounds and surface active substances by
electrochemical methods. The interactions of those substances with metal ions at
the interfaces as well as in the solution, determination of the complexing
capacity for metal ions and their implications for the marine biogeochemical
processes and in wet precipitations.

Area
of Research / Interest:
Marine geology, sedimentology, geochemistry of heavy metals in surficial
sediments of tropical rivers and estuaries, interstitial water and
hydrochemistry, groundwater chemistry.

Area
of Research / Interest:etermination, impact and fate of trace organic contaminants (chlorinated
pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls in the environment), Biomonitoring and
biomarkers of environmental contaminants, development of analytical techniques
for the analysis of trace organic contaminants, quality assurance and
intercalibration programs.

Soroosh
Sorooshian,Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Earth System Science,
University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-2175 USA

Area
of Research/Interest: Hydrometeorology and hydroclimate modeling, remote
sensing application in hydrology, interface of hydrology with water resources
management in semi-arid regions.

Area
of Research / Interest:Physical
and interdisciplinary ocean dynamics, from sub-mesoscales to inter-annual
scales, physical biogeochemical-acoustical ocean modeling, optimal estimation
and data assimilation, uncertainty and error modeling, and the optimization of
observing systems.